Midterm Elections 2026
Vox’s coverage and analysis of the 2026 midterm elections.
The mayor of Dearborn, a majority-Arab American city in Michigan, says his community feels hope, once again.
Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan — and now faces a far bigger test.
Left candidates have romped in blue state primaries. A Michigan general election will be a different challenge.
Red-state courts kept abortion legal. Now voters might change the courts.
Pro-Palestinian activists in 2024 were a precursor to today’s Michigan Senate race.
Four years ago, Michigan Rep. Andy Levin lost his primary to Haley Stevens. He tells us how he got on AIPAC’s bad side.
Elections vs. revolution, pragmatism vs. purity, pro-AOC vs. anti — a journalist who knows DSA well walks us through them.
Sen. Ed Markey wants another term. Rep. Seth Moulton is taking him on. What does the Democratic base care about more?
The left has a vision. Do moderates? Astead Herndon digs in for the first edition of The Midterms, Actually.
A simple Kalshi bet really can cost you your right to vote, state officials say. And New York may be next.
The real lesson of Abdul El-Sayed’s latest pseudo-scandal.
How the Wisconsin governor’s race became a tire fire for Democrats.
The ghosts of 2016, 2020, and 2024 have all come to Michigan.
The newly leaderless Election Assistance Commission, briefly explained.
Democratic turnout could overwhelm Trump’s attempts to rig the midterms.
New York’s Seventh District primary is pitting progressives against democratic socialists.
Three reasons to care about the New York congressional primaries on Tuesday.
Why the president is telling Americans he doesn’t care about the economy.
David Jolly, a former Republican member of Congress, is Democrats’ likely nominee. Here’s his case that he can win.
How Maine Democrats feel about their scandal-plagued Dem.
Three takeaways from a key swing district in Virginia.
How to make sense of a very messy election.
The Court’s new gerrymandering decision is tough to explain, unless you think the justices are GOP partisans.
How the heck did Alabama’s Republican lawmakers screw this one up?
And what they should do instead.
A religious fight is brewing in the Lone Star state.
Climate expert Matt Huber explains why Democrats should focus on other issues.
Democrats just handed the Supreme Court’s Republicans a loaded weapon.
Trump is floating Rubio as a potential successor. His vision sounds very different than JD Vance.
The court buried itself in dictionaries and missed the obvious.
Democracy and Donald Trump dominate the Court’s remaining docket.
The Republican justices just abolished 40 years worth of law protecting against rigged maps.
A new executive order attempts to seize control of mail-in voting.
How election officials are thinking about Trump’s threat to the midterms.
The nightmare scenario for American democracy is no longer unthinkable.
Democrats are finally fighting back in the redistricting war.